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Vaccines Work and Twice Over This week I am talking to Dr. Richard Pan, MD, MPH, (@DrPanMD) a pediatrician and California State Senator. He has been a leading advocate of increasing the health of everyone and raising California’s vaccination rates, sadly making him a target for online harassment and in-person assaults by conspiracy theorists and […]
Curated Surgical Training This week I am talking to Richard Vincent, CEO and Co-Founder of FundamentalVR, a company focused on democratizing access to surgery through virtual training. Richard came from a technology background building applications and solutions for the emerging mobile marketplace. To their eye, the next wave included the application of Virtual Reality and […]
This week I discuss Blood Groups and the potential impact this may have on COVID19 disease. In a recently pre-published paper, that added further evidence to 2 other papers (Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility and Testing the association between blood type and COVID-19 infection, intubation, and death) that have shown […]
This week I discuss the potential for a second wave of infection and what that could mean for businesses trying to re-open and how your testing strategy can contribute to the opening without creating a second wave. Should you do clinical screening, viral or antibody testing, and which strategies should be applied. One of the […]
Feedback Sensors This week I am interviewing Sri Peruvemba, VP of Strategy at BeBop Sensors. BeBop Sensors is an offshoot from Keith McMillen instruments who brought the BopPad to the world with smart fabric sensor innovation. Sri shares the key elements of successful companies he has been involved with that includes a hunger on the […]
With a nod to “The Trouble with Tribbles” this week I am reviewing testing strategies in the context of getting back to work and responding to a question I received on LinkedIn. Guidance on who should get tested (and in some cases who is eligible to get tested as we remain under-resourced in the United […]
Surviving and Thriving Incrementally in the new Post COVID19 world demands rethinking shift work, office ventilation, and common areas and food First up this week are some incremental steps to stay positive – it turns out that positivity is as infective as SARS-CoV-2 and highly transmissible. Smiling at someone can help especially at home where […]
It may be hard to imagine now but there will be a time when we emerge from our houses and the physical isolation/shelter-in-place and return to work. But doing so is going to require some adaptations and changes to the way we do business, our personal and professional lives. The tail of the SARS-CoV-2 virus […]
Navigating Mental Health This week I am talking to Ekaterina Malievskaia MD MScPH, Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder of COMPASS Pathways (Navigating Mental Health Pathways). Ekaterina is an entrepreneur dedicated to bringing about positive change in society with a particular focus on health and wellbeing and driven to address the challenge of access to brain health […]
Coronavirus The statistics are jarring – as of the latest update from WHO of 77,794 confirmed (599 new) cases globally with the majority coming from China with 2,348 deaths in China and 11 outside of China. The fatality rate in the point of origin (Wuhan China) is between 2-4% but outside of this region fatality […]
The recurring theme I find in life is people’s generally good intentions that fail to end in actual positive results? You will often find me stating that I don’t believe that anyone gets up in the morning with an intention of How can I be a terrible parent How can I eat unhealthily What is […]
While I applaud the action of USMLE to move to Pass/Fail scoring – doing so years past the debilitating over-emphasis on Step 1 on the beleaguered medical student I have to ask Why did it take so long and why announce this for 2 years in the future subject at least another 2 years of […]
Easing Frustration I get frustrated even though I try hard to not. Most of the day I amble along quietly absorbing the ups and downs, but that all comes to a screeching halt when I interact with some telephone systems and support. Not all are bad but some are so bad that by the time […]
Continuous Monitoring of Health So the opportunity to dive deep into glucose metabolism in my body with detail previously confined to laboratories was an exciting proposition. This especially true as I contemplated CES this coming week which has seen each year an ever-expanding Digital Health Pavilion with more companies and new solutions springing up. The […]
There Is No Simple Solution to Healthcare Costs This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2019 and closes out the year You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your […]
This week we take a look at mind-body therapies to reduce our need for medication in particular Opioids. JAMA published a Meta-Analysis study (A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis) this month. The researchers reviewed evidence from over 60 studies with more than 6000 people looking at a range of therapies including meditation, guided imagery, hypnosis, and cognitive-behavioral […]
Data Sharing and Clinical Sleuthing This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 2019 You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. […]
For many of us we live in a privileged world – I know oftentimes it seems like we don’t but rest assured, no matter what problems challenges or disasters have befallen you, your family or friends there is someone, somewhere who is worse off. You could be driven by rankings and where you appear with […]
Small Steps to Innovation This week I am talking to Marla Hetzel (@hetzelmj), Director of Innovation and User Experience at Change Healthcare. I met Marla when she presented at the HealthTechNet group on innovation where she talked about the ways she and her team and helping bring innovation back into businesses and healthcare. We discuss the […]
This months episode of “News you can use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September 2019 You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach out […]
Thomas Cook Closed for Business How does a company in business for over 170 years suddenly go out of business? Thomas Cook revolutionized travel doing amazing things to increase access inventing the package holiday or tour. At one point it seemed like every high street had a Thomas Cook Office on it featuring the latest […]
Humans the Weakest Link in Security As humans, we are programmed with compassion and a desire to help but this human nature is the foundation of many of the risks that we are exposed to in the digital and cloud filled data world we all inhabit now. Our personal programming and desire to help […]
This week I am talking to Dr Bill dePaso, Chief Medical Officer for Twistle that focuses on Patient Engagement. Bill is an Internal medicine phsycian who spent his career focused on Pulmonary and Critical Care and sleep. He spent the early part of his career working in Public health in Chicago where communication was the key element […]
Speech Recognition is Hard Why did it take so long for speech and speech recognition technology to hit mainstream? You can trace the technology back at least as far as Bell Labs who claimed the first major success in the field in the 1930’s when telephone engineers developed the famous Voder a speech synthesizer that was unveiled to […]
This week I am talking to Kulmeet Singh (@kulmeets), the CEO of Twistle (@twistleapp). They are building a multi-functional platform patient engagement or put another way WordPress for Care Automation That is platform and device agnostic using whatever exists to power everything behind the scenes avoiding the dreaded “portalitis” using some of the experiences developed over years […]
